January 1940 issue
cover art by John Fleming Gould
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T.T. Flynn, “Blood on the Book” (Mr. Maddox)
John Lawrence, “Death in the Side Pocket” (Broadway Squad)
Fred MacIsaac, “Object – Murder” (Rambler Murphy)
Philip Ketchem, “Hit-and-Run”
Hugh B. Cave, “Farewell With Trumpets” (Attendance Officer Coffey)
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Hugh B. Cave, “Satan’s Mistress”
John H. Knox, “The Dead Demand Tribute”
Wyatt Blassingame, “They Thirst by Night”
Arthur J. Burks, “Women of Stone”
Chandler H. Whipple, “White Lady of Hell”
Ray Cummings, “Moonlight and Jungle”
Paul Ernst, “Her Spirit Lover”
cover art by Malvin Singer?
Leslie T. White, “Corpse Crazy” (Duke Martindel)
Raymond Chandler, “Mandarin’s Jade” (John Dalmas)
John K. Butler, “The Pied Piper of Frisco” (Rex Lonergan)
Hugh B. Cave, “Twenty After Murder” (Jitters Johnson)
Jan Dana, “Dead Failure”
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cover art by Walter M. Baumhofer
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Hugh B. Cave, “Dark Bondage”
H. M. Appel, “Harvest of Hate”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “Madman’s Bride”
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Death Walks in Paradise”
James Duncan, “Food for Coffins”
Mindret Lord, “Hostage to Pain”
Monroe Karasik, “Unholy Eyes”
(cover repurposed for April 1940 issue)
cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “Easy to Kill” (Izzy O’Shea)
John Lawrence, “Call All Cars!” (Cass Blue)
Hugh B. Cave, “The Late Mr. Smythe” (Peter Kane)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Fair and Murder” (Jones & Jones)
Allan Vaughan Elston, “Star Witness”
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Dead Man’s Dinner” (Det. Colohan)
D.E. Winstead, “Heel Prints” (PI Tyson of Townsend Agency)
this is the first issue with 144 pages
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Hugh B. Cave, “Mistress of the Dead”
Arthur J. Burks, “Death-Nymph”
George Alden Edson, “Terror Rides the Subway”
Chandler H. Whipple, “The Last Harcourt”
Paul Ernst, “The Devil’s Doorstep”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “Death Lands a Cargo”
Richard G. Huzarski, “From What Black Pit—” (as by Richard C. Huzarski)
Maitland Scott, “True Strange Experiences: The Well of Horror”
